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Other Groups to Network With

Sunday, July 4, 2 PM whenever: July 4 Cookout. CoElisheva Levin at [email protected] for more info. Burgersdogs and lemonade provided. Bring side dishes, desserts,other drinks to share. NO FIREWORKS ALLOWED duproximity to the National Forest.

Saturday, July 10 and Sunday, July 11: Pistol Class in Farminby Cope Reynolds. Contact Milt Cumiford [email protected] for registration papersmore info.

Wednesday, July 14, 5-7 PM: The Rio Grande Foundation hLiberty on the Rocks in Santa Fe at the Rio Chama SteakhoSee this page for details riograndefoundation.org/pg_ev_lotrs.html

Thursday, July 15, 5-7 PM: The Rio Grande Foundation hLiberty on the Rocks in Albuquerque at the Chama River BreCompany. For details, see this page riograndefoundation.org/pg_ev_lotr.html

Tuesday, June 27, 5-7 PM: The Rio Grande Foundation hLiberty on the Rocks Las Cruces at the Cattle Baron SteSeafood Restaurant on the 4th Tuesday of every month. The CBaron will offer happy hour prices and a full menu for selection. For details, see this page

riograndefoundation.org/pg_ev_lotrlc.htmlWednesday, July 28, Thursday, July 29, and Friday, July 30:Rio Grande Foundation hosts Dr. Matt Ladner, Vice PresideResearch at the Goldwater Institute in Arizona for a presentatio"Turning Around New Mexico's Public Schools - The FlModel" in Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Santa Fe. See this pagriograndefoundation.org/pg_ev_ml.html for details.

The New Mexico Patriot Alliance 2010 Fall Summit

The New Mexico Patriot Alliance's mission is to support PaPreparedness, Education and Action, and Patriot group interathroughout New Mexico in order to restore Constitutgovernance to New Mexico and the United States.

Fall Summit Schedule

Friday Evening, 15 October Speech by Michael Badnarik,and open to the public donations gratefully accepted.

Saturday, 16 October NMPA fall summit featuring teachinMr. Badnarik (cost TBA)

Sunday, 17 October Michael Badnarik's famous ConstitClass (cost TBA)

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The Law by Frederic Bastiat

See these pages

bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

jpfo.org/articles-assd/bastiat-the-law.htm

Also in PDF form jpfo.org/pdf02/bastiat-thelaw-2008.pdf

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Events at a Glance

Bernalillo County The BCLP stages one no-host dinner meetingper month, on Thursday, 8 July, 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Fiesta'sRestaurant & Lounge (Carlisle & Montogomery NE). Contact MikeBlessing for details [ [email protected] / 505-515-7015 ], orsee the BCLP website lpnm.us/bernalillo.

State Party Treasurer Michael Simpson was appointed as Precinct89 Chair after the State Central Committee meeting on 13 June2010.

Precinct 553 Chair Elisheva Levin cancelled her run for StateRepresentative, District 22 against Republican James Smith due tofamily matters that popped up at the last minute.

The Weekly Sedition returns to Albuquerque Comcast Channel 27on 8 July 2010 at 8 PM. For those not subscribed to ABQ Comcast,the show can be viewed live at the Channel 27 website (NOTE this requires MS Windows Media Player!) [ quote-unquote.org].

Dona Ana County The next scheduled Central Committeemeeting is 14 August 2010, time and place to be annnounced. Anycounty Libertarian wanting support in running for political office orhaving party or political issues that they wish the county party toaddress prior to then can call a meeting of the County CentralCommittee by gaining the approval of at least half of the Committeemembers via email or phone request.

Please contact the chair or check the LPDAC website for moreinformation

[email protected] / 575-571-6881 / lpnm.us/dona-ana.

If you live in a county with an inactive affiliate and want to getinvolved, contact the county chair. See Page 7 for a list ofcounty chairs, campus contacts and Central Committeemembers.

Special Events

Central Committee Meeting Sunday, 26 September 2010

Lunch at 12:00 PM, meeting from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. All Caucusmembers are welcome to attend. County Chairs and Contactsand candidates are encouraged to attend! Location QuartersBBQ at 3700 Ellison NW in Albuquerque see tinyurl.com/27rhyrnfor map and directions.

Central Committee Meeting Sunday, 12 December 2010

Lunch at 12:00 PM, meeting from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. All Caucusmembers are welcome to attend. County Chairs and Contactsand candidates are encouraged to attend! Location QuartersBBQ at 3700 Ellison NW in Albuquerque see tinyurl.com/27rhyrnfor map and directions.

2011 Annual State Convention

Location, dates, panels and speakers are to be determined.

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The LPNM's CandidatesState Legislature

State Representative, District 16Mike Blessing mike4nmh16-2010.blogspot.com

State Representative, District 19Mark Curtis [email protected]

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There are really only two viable ways forward at this point.

First, and in the shorter term, regulations and laws musloosened in order to give utilities the flexibility to determine sources to derive "renewable" energy from. After all, since wihalf as expensive as solar, shouldn't PNM and other utilities at have the freedom to generate energy from the least-costly sour

Ultimately, the public, utility customers and our elected leamust decide when the economic costs of "renewable" enexceed benefits. The only logical and, dare I say moral, thing is to give consumers the freedom to choose for themselves. I

worth it for a business or consumer to pay extra for the peacmind of supporting the growth of renewable energy sourcessolar or wind, they should have the freedom to do this.

It is simply unfair and wrong for a minority to use governmeforce their preferences on the majority of consumers who wibuy the least expensive and most reliable electricity possible.

Consumers have two opportunities to weigh in on this issue. Oin the upcoming public hearings and again in November when slots on the PRC are up for election.

Here's hoping that economic reality will get average citizensnot just renewable energy zealots to engage in the process.

Originally published in the Albuquerque Journal

Paul Gessing is the President of New Mexicos Rio GrFoundation. The Rio Grande Foundation is an independent,

partisan, tax-exempt research and educational organizdedicated to promoting prosperity for New Mexico base

principles of limited government, economic freedom and indivresponsibility.

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"A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust." James Madison, Federalist Papers


Under New Mexico's "Renewable Portfolio Standard" law, regulated

electric utilities must derive 15 percent of their electricity needsfrom renewable sources by 2015, with 20 percent to come fromrenewable sources by 2020. Starting in late June, Public ServiceCompany of New Mexico will begin holding Integrated ResourcePlanning public meetings to determine how it will comply with therenewable mandate over the next decade-plus.

Already, organizations like New Mexico Industrial EnergyConsumers are expressing concern over rates that have gone upby 24 percent in the past three years.

PNM for its part has requested a 21 percent increase. To be fair,these hikes have not been driven by New Mexico's foray intorenewable energy, which now stands at 6 percent of electricitysales, but mandated increase in more costly renewable sources willresult in even greater hikes over time as these mandates take hold.

Unfortunately, not only is New Mexico's mandate forcing NewMexico utility customers to pay for more expensive "renewable"electricity, the law which originally allowed utilities to use therenewable energy source that made the most economic sense waslater changed to force utilities to adhere to specific "mandates-within-a-mandate."

This additional mandate means that investor-owned-utilities mustderive at least 20 percent of their renewable power from wind, 20percent from solar, 10 percent from "other technologies" likebiomass and, by 2015, 3 percent of the electricity must be derivedthrough distributed generation.

So-called distributed generation is yet another onerous requirementon utilities. Specifically, this means that PNM and other investor-

owned-utilities such as El Paso Electric must now rely on outputfrom many small energy sources. This has the makings of apaperwork, security and reliability nightmare that will further driveup costs for consumers.

Because of these policies, particularly the solar requirement although the "other technologies" and distributed generationrequirements are problematic New Mexicans face higherelectricity prices. That is, even after significant federal subsidies forrenewables, which they are paying for yet again, are priced-into theequation. Nonetheless, the cost of solar thermal electricity, madeby using the sun's heat to boil water and spin a turbine, would benearly three times that of coal and more than twice that of naturalgas.

All of these costs and subsidies are passed on to consumers.

Of course, in today's difficult economy, with jobs and economicgrowth taking precedence over supposedly high-minded "green"energy mandates, politicians should realize that unrealisticmandates will kill New Mexico's economy and hurt the veryconsumers they are supposed to protect.

Take California as a prime example.

There are many reasons that have caused California to become aneconomic basket case. Idealism in pursuit of unrealisticenvironmental goals like the state's renewable portfolio standard isone. In an executive order issued in November 2008, Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger set in law goals of generating 20 percent of allelectricity from renewable sources by 2010 and 33 percent by2020. According to the state's leading utility, PG&E, the state iscurrently at 12 or 13 percent renewable.

Renewables Draining Economyby Paul Gessing

[ [email protected] ]8 June 2010 tinyurl.com/2fhr9b3

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Libertarian philosophy is based on the concept of self-ownership.Human beings own themselves. When we rightfully acquireproperty, either by making first claim to that property

(homesteading) or through voluntary transfer with another personor persons, that property becomes part of our lives, and thus we layclaim to ownership of that property as we would our own bodies.

One of the problems that libertarians encounter when discussingvarious issues is determining ownership, or, in many cases,articulating the nuances of applying property rights to the issue.These problems are compounded when government is thrown intothe equation since the same rules about property and ownershipthat apply to private individuals do not apply to coercivegovernment. The hot-button issue of immigration is a greatexample, illustrating the complexities involved in applying propertyrights to an issue.

Ownership means that one not only possess something, but onealso controls the thing. In other words, if you truly own something,

you must be free to use the thing as you wish so long as doing sodoes not violate the property of others. You must also be free totransfer the thing to another person so long as the transaction isvoluntary and consensual. When it comes to land, property rights,i.e. control over that land, include controlling who enters into theboundaries of the land.

When dealing with the topic of immigration, that is, the movementof individuals across political designations, this is where things getconfusing. The State claims not only to be able to control whocrosses the land that it owns, but also to control who enters landowned by private individuals. It also claims the authority to prohibitcertain individuals from living within its borders, even if theseindividuals acquired their land rightfully (using the criteria above) byhomesteading or through voluntary exchange. Those of us who

believe that private property is the basis of a free society must ask:how was this authority engendered?

If we continue along this line of thinking, the logical conclusion mustbe that the State owned all the land within its borders a priori sinceit is the government which sets the conditions for how that land maybe used, and to whom it may be transferred in the future. The Statecontinues to retain a high degree of control since the governmenthas the ultimate authority to make the rules for all property, evenproperty now in private hands.*

To the libertarian, or anyone who believes in the sanctity ofproperty rights, these conclusions are quite troubling. When itcomes to land ownership in America, property rights are not at allsecure; they are not really rights at all, but government grantedprivileges.

While our system of property rights is already imperfect, the currentimmigration policy leads to even greater infringements on theserights. For example, if one owns property on or near the border, thegovernment may claim the authority to build a fence or a wall onones property, and government agents may come and go as theyplease without the property owners permission.

These problems remain even if we move away from the border.For example, if the government suspects that I am employingundocumented workers, it claims the authority to raid my business to enter my property without my permission with armed agents.

If one truly owns ones property, how is it that the government cancontrol who is allowed on this property in opposition to the wishesof the property owner? In other words, why should my friend from

Mexico beg for permission to enter the country in order to havedinner with me?

Shouldnt free people be able to associate or not associate whomever they wish so long as those interactions are volunconsensual, and do not harm a third party?

The same is true of economic activities. So long as commeactivities are voluntary, consensual, and do not encroach other individuals or their property, what is the justification fogovernment prohibiting these activities or associations?

In the contemporary world of immigration politics, property rand the freedom of association are trumped by the omnipoState. Is the State some sort of god before whom we must plea

recognize us as "official" persons? After all, that is the crux oimmigration question must the individuals coming to Amhave the sanction of the State? As the State continues to legitimacy in the eyes of so many in the liberty movement,wonders why many of these same folks still demand that individwho peacefully come to this country seek the States appabove all else. After all, it is the State that determines who is "leand "illegal."

Now one may argue that despite all this, illegal immigrationcrime and as such must be punished. The question is, who ivictim of this crime? So long as the immigrant has not haranother individual or violated another individuals property, whosuffered injury? Just like so many other "crimes," this activitycrime against the State, and should fall into the categor

victimless crime. While such activity may violate State edicts, ithardly be considered a crime in the sense that no individual harmed by the activity.

When dealing with laws restricting the movement of human bewe should keep in mind Thomas Paines prophetic observationthat would make his own liberty secure, must guard evenenemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishprecedent that will reach to himself." Demanding thatgovernment "do something" about illegal immigration will resbigger, more intrusive government and less freedom for all of u

Already efforts ostensibly aimed at illegal immigration underthe ability of Americans to travel freely in our own country. InSouthwest, the Border Patrol has built permanent checkpointsinside the United States, located along major travel routes like

All travelers must exit the freeway and be processed by agents, including questioning and possible searches. Since feagents operating in this geographic area are not constrained bprobable cause standard of the Fourth Amendment, there iprotection against arbitrary searches and seizures evenAmerican citizens. This fact has prompted the ACLU to declareareas within 100 miles of Americas borders as "Constitution Zones."

In addition, in some of the airports in this area including Laredoand Tucson, AZ, travelers are subject not only to the indignitiTSA searches but also questioning by ICE agents about citizenship.

To believe that a government program targeting a specific gropeople will not affect everyone in general is nave and contra

history. If nothing else, the government faces the problemdetermining if an individual belongs to the target group. No oneeven a government agent, has the magical ability to determones nationality simply by looking at him. For example, during1950s, an aunt of mine, a third generation American, was deservice at a restaurant in New Mexico because she was complected and, despite her French and German ancestry, itassumed that she was a Mexican. If someone has dark skinHispanic features, are we automatically to assume that he illegal alien? Likewise, what about light-skinned folks who mahere illegally? Will they simply fall through the cracks?

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For these reasons, the government will demand to know the status of everyone. In other words, it will not be up togovernment to prove that one is here illegally. It will be up to yprove otherwise. That is why Senators Chuck Schumer Lindsey Graham are proposing a biometric national ID card fAmericans. You see, the government has a compelling neeknow who you are, to put your information into another databand to determine if you are "eligible" to work here. De facto permits for Americans in America?! Nice. Im sure it would n

cross the mind of any politician to turn off the work permits opolitical enemies.

The answer to the immigration debate is the same as it is other issues more freedom, not more government. Insteasking the government to crack down on immigration, we shrecognize that it is government programs and interventions thathe problem and demand that the government cease tactivities.

Unfortunately, while recognizing the problems that governcauses in so many other areas, many folks, especonservatives, apply a double-standard when it comeimmigration. For example, while conservatives rightly blObamaCare pointing out that it will result in the nationalizatithe health care system, these same people lament how immig

are destroying "our" hospitals. They are not "our" hospitals; are, or at least should be, private businesses which should beto exclude anyone from receiving their services, but are restrfrom doing so by government edict. Likewise, we hearimmigrants are overwhelming the public education systemconservative icon Ronald Reagan advocated disbandingDepartment of Education and, at a federal level anyway, gettingovernment out of the education business.

Finally, we have social welfare. It is the existence of governmwelfare programs that are much of the problem, attracting peopthis country who wish to live off the labor of others. Eliminate tprograms and you eliminate this problem.

When you empower the government to do something,government often ends up using these powers in ways that yonot foresee or intend. And it may end up using these poagainst you. In the preface to her novel Anthem, Ayn lambasted socialists for not recognizing or taking responsibilitthe consequences of the policies that they advocated expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruinsconcentration camps to escape the moral responsibility by wa'But I didnt mean this!'

As the United States continues its war on immigrationgovernment is building the infrastructure for a police state intcheckpoints, national ID cards, work permits. When we wake that police state, will the anti-immigration crowd cry: "But I dmean this!" ?

* Unfortunately, there is much truth to these statements since

titles in the United States are based on a relic of the feudal sysfee simple [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_simple ], meaning that one can have an "interest" in ones land, the land is actually owby the government, i.e. the government has dominium eminesupreme lordship.

Glenn Jacobs is the actor and professional wrestler-entertKane [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_%28wrestler%29 ]. Visblog [http://adventuresofcitizenx.com ].


Taxes dont support Hemp TV2 July 2010

by Austin Reed, Eyewitness News 4, and Reed Upton, KOB.comkob.com/article/stories/S1636142.shtml?cat=500

Screenshot of the video clip showing Cindy and Matt on KOB-TV

Despite popular beliefs, taxpayers dollars dont support acontroversial public access television show devoted to discussingmarijuana called Hemp TV.

Matt and Cindy appear to be getting high while smoking on theshow and fielding questions ranging from the benignI am gettingit for MS to the, well, stoned Im in the middle of the f******woods!

Its not just one opinion, says Cindy. It is just pretty much toopen the debate about the war on drugs, but most specificallyabout the war on Marijuana.

The show's producers defend the program as an example offreedom of speech.

Mike Trujillo, the public access stations program coordinator, sayswhat the group is doing is totally legitimate and does not costtaxpayers.

The is a federal mandate that cable carriers give monies to whatis called PEG funds, public education and government channels,he explains. So essentially, if you have Comcast cable, there is asmall fee that comes from every subscriber, and I believe its 44cents.

Trujillo says the City of Albuquerque is not involved with the stationother than collecting funds from the cable company and providingthem to the public access station.
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LPNM Central Committee

ChairJay Vandersloot 505-362-1733 /[email protected]

Vice ChairElisheva Levin 505-286-1387 /[email protected]

SecretarySiebert Ickler 575-541-9079 / [email protected]

TreasurerMichael Simpson 505-999-9954 / [email protected]

District 1 RepresentativeBob Finch 765-412-2374 / [email protected]

District 2 RepresentativeVACANT

District 3 RepresentativeMike Moss 505-564-4905 / [email protected]

At-Large Representative, Seat AAllen Cogbill 505-662-7833 /[email protected]

At-Large Representative, Seat BAttila Csanyi 505-286-7861 /[email protected]

At-Large Representative, Seat C

Mike Blessing 505-515-7015 / [email protected]

At-Large Representative, Seat DRon Bjornstad 505-891-4541 / [email protected]

At-Large Representative, Seat EVACANT

Membership CoordinatorRon Bjornstad 505-288-4228 / [email protected]

Press SecretaryBill Koehler 505-264-0835 / [email protected]

Media DirectorBob Finch 765-412-2374 / [email protected]

Campus Contacts

Central New Mexico Community College [CNM]groups.myspace.com/cnmlibertariansMike Blessing 505-515-7015 / [email protected]

Internet Resources

Official Website lpnm.us

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Blog lpofnm.blogspot.com

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Libertarian National Committee

For the full list, see this page lp.org/leadership

Region 4 RepresentativeNorman Olsen 303-277-9967 /[email protected]

Region 4 AlternateDon Willis [email protected]

County Contacts

Bernalillo lpnm.us/bernalilloMike Blessing 505-515-7015 /[email protected]

ColfaxRichard Moore 575-377-6849 / [email protected]

Dona Ana lpnm.us/dona-anaJohn Ennis 575-571-6881 /[email protected]

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Christina Groth 575-397-9366

LincolnRichard Obergfell 575-378-8025 / [email protected]

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LunaMarilyn Steffen 575-531-2556 / [email protected]

Otero lpnm.us/oteroGilberto Heredia 575-439-8234 / [email protected]

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For Paul Family, Libertarian Ethos Began at HomeBy Mark Leibovich 5 June 2010

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WASHINGTON In keeping with their position as the First Familyof Libertarianism, the Pauls of Lake Jackson, Tex., did not havemany rules around their home.

Behave yourself and be polite is how Representative Ron Pauldescribes his regulatory philosophy about rearing five children. Mr.Paul, a Republican, and his wife of 53 years, Carol, never believedin assigned chores or mandates.

They did not give out allowances, which they viewed as a parentalversion of a government handout. They did not believe in strictcurfews; Mr. Paul says that unintended consequences likespeeding home to beat the clock can result from excessivemeddling from a central authority.

While Mr. Pauls laissez-faire views produced a family of likemindedthinkers Were all on board, says the oldest son, Ronnie Paul they inspired the middle child, Rand, to follow his fathers careerpath, first into medicine and now politics. If he prevails in Novemberafter winning the Republican nomination for a Senate seat inKentucky last month, he and his father would form a two-manlibertarian dynasty.

Father and son are described as each others political sounding

boards, confidants and support systems. Dad and Rand spenthours having great philosophical discussions about issues, saidJoy Paul Leblanc, the youngest sibling.

Everyone always said, If anyone runs for anything, it will be Rand, the congressman said.

The two Pauls have similar economic ideologies, overlappingorganizations and Internet-based fund-raising apparatuses. Theelder Mr. Paul, 74, dispensed behind-the-scenes advice during hissons bid for the Senate seat, in which he upset the favorite,Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Mr. Paul, the two-time libertarian presidential candidate, referred to his sonscampaign as our race. When his son faced criticism recently overcomments that some interpreted as skeptical of federal civil rightslaws, the congressman was shaken.

Rand Paul, 47, who declined to be interviewed for this article, hasdescribed his father as his political hero. But he is quick toemphasize that he has never been dependent on him. I think mydad has helped me tremendously, he said in a joint interview withhis father for a Kentucky television station this year. But the onlyway I win is on my own two feet.

He decided to go into politics despite his lineage as much asbecause of it, family members said. Ron believes that you are notsupposed to initiate force on anyone else, Mrs. Paul said. Herhusband promoted self-reliance in his children, and their choicesand views flowed from that, she said.

Friends of the family describe a traditional household with early

American dcor and the frequent aroma of Mrs. Pauls chocolatechip cookies, if not fish sticks. They have lived since July 4, 1968,in the same middle-class enclave of Lake Jackson, where thestreets are named for trees, flowers and fauna (the Pauls live onBlossom). They owned a series of collies (Julie, Kippy and Cricket)and a Maltese (Liberty), and the kids were expected, though notrequired, to feed the pooches, make their own beds, clear their owndishes from the table and not talk back to their elders.

As a member of Congress, Mr. Paul spent most of his time inWashington and, upon returning to Texas, often crisscrossed hissprawling district to attend political events. At home, his childrenrecall, he prized the solitude of his lawnmower. Mrs. Paul was astay-at-home mom, longtime Girl Scout troop leader and self-described busybody who prided herself on knowing exactly what

everyone was doing.

If one of the children misbehaved, her husband did not spanyell. Instead, he sometimes gave them written assignments, Paul said, explaining, He believed in exercising the brain.

Ron Paul said he was not philosophically opposed to centraauthority, as long as it existed close to home, or within it. We dsay the kids could do anything they wanted, he said.

They were a very Brady Bunch-type American family, saidDondero, a longtime former aide to Ron Paul. As different as politics are, their personal life was very normal.

A strong libertarian bent ran through the Paul brood, and thereno apparent outliers. Once you learn about the broken monepolicy, there is no other way, said Ronnie Paul, a retired engiat Dow Chemical in nearby Freeport. We believe that stealing people is not good, whether youre the government or whetherhave a mask on your face.

Rand particularly absorbed the family ethic of exerting his freeThough never rebellious, he sometimes bristled at being givemany directions. As a junior in high school, his mother recalledgot a paper back from a geometry teacher that, while lacorrect, was filled with what he considered to be unnecessarymarks. He walked into the principals office and asked to be minto another class. He and that teacher were not on the swavelength, said Mrs. Paul, who added that she and her hussupported Rands actions. Rand was someone who took ca

his own problems.

As a teenager, he studied the Austrian economists that his farevered, as well as the iconic free-market novelist and philosoAyn Rand (she was not the inspiration for Rands name, whishort for Randall; he was called Randy growing up).

Rand walked door to door in support of his fathers Congressional race, in 1974, and while a student at BUniversity, he helped in his fathers unsuccessful Senate against Phil Gramm in 1984. (When Ron Paul had to bWashington for a Congressional vote, Rand stepped in for himdebate against Mr. Gramm it was his first public speaappearance). Rand would take it upon himself to organize the ofamily members on neighborhood walking tours, canvassesappearances.

We would all be home for a big Christmas dinner, his father And Rand would be talking politics. He educated himself on poin ways that Ive never even cared about.

More recently, Rand traveled to several states in 2008 on behhis fathers insurgent campaign for the Republican nomination enterprise that gained surprising traction at the grass rootsbrought in over $35 million in campaign donations.

Mr. Paul was loath to guide his five children in any vocatidirection, although three of them followed him into careemedicine. (Rand is an ophthalmologist, who like his father atteDuke University Medical School and is often referred to as Dr. by his staff and supporters; Joy is an obstetrician-gynecologistRobert is a family doctor.)

The father was insistent about allowing his children as mautonomy as possible and he believed, for instance, that econsubsidies (like allowances) could foster dependence. discouraged Rand or any of his siblings from accepting financiato attend college, nor would he accept Medicare or Medpayments from patients, calling it stolen money in a interview with The Austin American-Statesman. (Rand however, was criticized recently for opposing cuts to Medphysician payments.)

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While Ron Paul supports his sons Senate campaign, hisparticipation has been noticeably arms-length, owing to a concernthat his views might be too outside the mainstream for a generalelectorate, particularly on foreign policy. He has suggested, forexample, that the United States needs to explore Al Qaedasmotives. Nobody wants to talk about the motive, he said lastJanuary. But its out there, its laid on a platter. Bin Laden writes ofit.

When asked whether anyone told him to keep his distance fromKentucky, the elder Mr. Paul said: Ive got a life to lead. I have ajob. And when Im off, I want to be in Texas.

He added that there are perils for political heirs relying too heavilyon their patrons. It can be very dangerous when somebody thinksthey inherit these things, he said.

Family members say the congressman has been shaken by therecent storm his son has faced over remarks in which he seemed totake issue, on libertarian grounds, with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

At the outset of an interview on Capitol Hill, Mr. Paul placed thecontroversy the agitation, he called it off limits. But then heimmediately referred to a recent column supportive of his son in theCongressional newspaper, The Hill, and volunteered that he hadjust telephoned the columns author, Lanny Davis, a Clinton WhiteHouse aide, to thank him.

Mr. Davis said, I heard a fathers concern more than I did anypolitical concern, and described the conversation as emotional.

Mr. Paul conceded that it is easier to be the candidate under attackthan to be a family member of one. No matter how well you armyourself, no matter how well you know the system, he said in theinterview, it really hurts when its your son.

I spend exactly zero time worrying that black helicopters will swoopdown and impose a new world order. I don't believe that the CIAkilled JFK, and I don't think the Air Force is hiding a UFO in thedesert which is to say, I generally don't take conspiracy theoriesseriously.

But a proposed law that would give the government a so-killed killswitch to essentially turn off the public Internet is very, veryworrisome, and it raises the specter of some future administrationusing that power to crack down on its opponents. Imagine if theIranian government could have shut down the Internet a year ago it tried but failed when millions were protesting the rigged electionand brutal suppression of dissidents.

Sponsored by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), the 196-pageProtecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA) wouldrequire that private companies such as "broadband providers,search engines, and software firms immediately comply with anyemergency measure or action" put in place by the Department ofHomeland Security, or else face fines.

Am I missing something here? Is this less toxic that it sounds?Apparently not. It appears that Lieberman, not necessarily thesmartest man in the Senate, does have an idea of how much powerthe bill would give to Washington. "Right now China, itsgovernment, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war, andwe need to have that here, too," said Lieberman during an

appearance on CNN last Sunday.

Now there's something to aspire to: the Chinese model of Intesecurity and free speech.

A bad idea that keeps coming back

This sort of bad idea has been floating around Congress while. A year ago, a couple of senators proposed the CybersecAct of 2009, which would have given the government the powshut the Web in an emergency and give it access to "all reledata concerning [critical infrastructure] networks without regaany provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting access."

In effect it would have allowed, or maybe mandated, that doors be built into private networks in case the government neeaccess in a hurry.

That bill was sidetracked during the health care debate, busenators who sponsored it, Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) andRockefeller (D-W. Va.), support this version. Snowe has signed on as a co-sponsor, saying at a press conference, cannot afford to wait for a cyber 9/11 before our governrealizes the importance of protecting our cyber resources."

A price too high to pay

Yes, cyber attacks on this country's infrastructure are a sepotential threat, and it's reasonable to give the governmenpower to protect us. Certainly the apparent Russia-based c

attacks on Georgia and Estonia show that cyber war, inclumassive DoS attacks, is more than science fiction.

Lieberman's bill, though, would create another bureaucracy wthe already cumbersome bureaucracy of the DepartmeHomeland Security. It would be called the National CenteCybersecurity and Communications (NCCC).

Bureaucracies have a bad track record when it comes to proteindividual rights. Just think how many innocent Americans been denied the right to get on an airplane because they wmistakenly put on a no-fly list by Homeland Security. Onbureaucracy labels someone a bad actor, getting the namefaceless functionaries to correct an error can be nearly impossi

The bill has a provision that would grant broadband prov

immunity from civil lawsuits if they cut service to a customer oorders of the NCCC. At first glance that may seem reasonablethe grant of immunity will make it that much harder for innopeople to gain redress if the bureaucracy makes a mistake.

As I said, I'm not a believer in conspiracies, and as muchdislike this bill, I don't think that Lieberman and his co-sponsorgearing up for some sort of dictatorship. But, there's no telling the political landscape will look like in the future. In an age wthe Internet has become one of the most important meanpolitical expression, giving the government the power to shdown is giving it the power to stifle free speech and dissent.

This article, "Say no to a government 'kill switch' for the Interwas originally published by InfoWorld.com. Read more ofSnyder's Tech's Bottom Line blog and follow the latest techno

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From The Libertarian Enterprise

People tend to have mixed feelings about corporations. Just as it'ssaid that "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants todie," it's equally true that everybody wants a secure job with goodpay and generous benefits, but nobody wants to spend their lives ina cubicle, or on an assembly line. Likewise, everybody wantsinexpensive goods and services of a reliable, predictable quality,but nobody wants to surrender their freedom of personal choice orindividual sovereignty.

Unfortunately, corporations, especially when they're controlled byindividuals who don't take the long view, often seem to find it moreconvenient or profitable to override or ignore those values as wellas laws written to protect them than to observe and respect them.In this, they are not unlike government. If we seek freedom, theymust be opposed and resisted, whenever necessary, exactly like

government. Clearly, it is no better to be oppressed by acorporation than by government.

Corporations are properly associated with mercantilism, rather thancapitalism. Mercantilism is a system under which governmentgrants special status to one or more company at the expense of itscompetitors. The British East India Company, for example,possessed an exclusive, royally-granted "right" to conduct tradebetween India and China, on the one hand, and the British Empirefor more than 250 years.

Private capitalism, by contrast, is a system under which variousenterprises compete in the marketplace by offering the highestquality goods and services they can, at the lowest possible prices.Progress occurs as individuals and companies strive to raise qualityand lower prices.

The infamous 1773 Boston Tea Party, was as much a revoltagainst mercantilism (which is the same thing that we now call"fascism"), and the monopolistic British East India Company, as itwas against the latest British government tax on tea. Scottish moralphilosopher Adam Smith's famous Wealth of Nations was publishedin 1776 specifically to complain about mercantilism and make apowerful case for private capitalism.

A corporation is a group of individuals who create or acquire anorganization to which they want government to grant specialpowers and immunities. One of these immunities is "limitedliability". Whenever someone sues the corporation successfully, allthey can ever hope to recover is whatever wealth is in the name ofthe corporation. The corporation's owners the individuals who areactually responsible for whatever the corporation does areotherwise immune. The accepted "legal fiction" is that thecorporation is a person, in and of itself, an individual with rights,whose responsibilities do not extend beyond its corporateboundaries, and are not the same as its owners'.

Most corporations make periodic payments to their owners called"dividends", sharing profits and allowing money to escape the thecorporate boundary into private hands where it is immune todemands on the company, a formula for acquiring enormous wealthat little or no risk.

In other words, if my dog bites you, you can sue me. But if Iincorporate my dog, he becomes his own person, and I can't beheld responsible for what he does. (I'm not absolutely sure of thistheory with regard to dogs, but it's what appears to happen with

regard to corporations.)

It is said this "legal fiction" which I always thought had araround the time of the 14th century Hanseatic League or some is necessary to encourage business, and that without it theenterprise system couldn't function. It's interesting to observethe free enterprise system seemed to function perfectly wellthe middle of the 19th century, around the time of the War BetwThe States, which some historians believe was fought mostbenefit corporate sponsors of Abraham Lincoln and the RepubParty.

Historian Gabriel Kolko no friend to free market capitalism,

canny and accurate observer has written that toward the enthe 19th century, corporations had grown so large and unwthat they needed government help to protect them from freshcompetition entering the market. Limited liability was an outrighto them, as were so-called "antitrust laws", like the Shermanwhich large institutions could deal with easily through their departments, but which put smaller, newer starter enterprisesvery serious disadvantage.

Thus corporations are founded on a lie, and they often represeleast as grave a danger to individual life, liberty, and propergovernments do. The left, which generally despises all busienterprise, whether mercantilistic or capitalistic, often expcorporations for their inhumane and irresponsible policies hundreds of offerings from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle to Silkto Erin Brockovitch. Protective legislation on the behacorporations has retarded competition (driving prices higher they would otherwise be), stifled progress (corporations alrhave a reputation for intimidating or buying out innovators in oto stay in control and retain their "share" of the market),allowed big corporations to become the bloated, clumonstrosities they are today.

In the long run, libertarians must be neither pro-corporate nor corporate, but consistently advocate individual rights. The follomeasures are intended to benefit the individual by removingresults of government interference in the market on the behacorporations.

First and foremost, limited liability must be abolished, along wit"legal fiction" that the corporation is a person in its own

Limited liability unjustly allows the owners corporations to esthe consequences of the harmful acts of their "agent",corporation.

On the other hand, as long as that "legal fiction" or lie is alloto stand as a privilege granted by government, to that extentcorporation is a creature of the government, and must be asrestrained by the Bill of Rights as the government is supposbe. This means that corporate strictures on free speech, ocarrying of personal weapons must be stricken down, as they mnot be if the corporation were truly private property, and noextension of the state.

In a society without limited liability, advocacy groups could be sif certain damaging measures they support become law. A reexample is the National Rifle Association, which has cynically

despicably endorsed what would amount to a new AlienSedition Act legislation that would officially muzzle corpcriticism of the government by its rival organizations in exchfor being granted immunity to it, themselves. At the same environmental groups would have to calculate cost versus befor everything they propose.

Corporations are often criticized for being interested only in pand loss. And yet, that is exactly how it should be; theirobligation is to their shareholders. It is up to the rest of us to crand maintain a civilization in which profit comes easier and loless likely if corporations behave like the decent adult hubeings they falsely pretend to be.

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Second only to abolishing the lie of limited liability, serious andmeaningful tort reform in the form of the British "loser pays all"model must be given the highest possible priority, trial lawyers bedamned, in order to discourage frivolous or mercenary lawsuits.

Next, all corporate taxes must be repealed. This is not intended asany kind of favor to corporations. The left seems chronically unableto learn that corporations do not pay taxes, but pass them on tocustomers who, as a result, get taxed twice. Eliminating corporatetaxes would make goods and services cheaper, raising living

standards, and enabling companies to offer more employment thanis presently the case.

At the same time that we get rid of limited liability, abolish sovereignimmunity (the doctrine that "the King can do no wrong") as well asfractional reserve banking, another business lie encouraged bygovernment. This would mean smaller government and muchsmaller corporations.

Another thing that has to go is the capital gains tax. Americans arefrequently criticized for having little or no savings. Clearly, if asociety taxes something people's savings or the interest theyearn, for example there will be less and less of it. This reformwould change all of that, help stabilize the economy, andunderwrite progress, as the savings were used to finance new andinnovative business.

As this chapter is being written, a particularly evil corporate scam isbeing exposed in which homeowners, hundreds of thousands ofthem, trying to avoid foreclosure in a government-wreckedeconomy, have renegotiated their loans under federal reliefprograms, only to discover that their homes have been sold outfrom under them by the bank, often to itself, without proper notice.Could this happen in a society where corporate shareholders anddirectors can be sued, not just for their corporate holdings, but fortheir personal assets, as well or possibly arrested and jailed forperpetrating such a fraud?

Also at the moment, most of the short-span attention of the newsmedia is focused on the oil well disaster off America's gulf coast.The well in question is located under a mile of water where it couldonly be discovered and extracted with a great deal of veryexpensive technology.

Drilling that far out at sea was made necessary because petroleumproducers are currently forbidden by federal and state governments usually driven by environmental pressure groups who hate,loathe, and despise all human progress and prosperity to drill anycloser, or on the land itself. That's one of several reasons gasolineprices remain high. To some extent, high gas prices may alsorepresent a frightened attempt on the part of oil companies to "cashout" before what they see as the inevitable disaster, not of "peakoil" (one of the more idiotic hoaxes of our times) but the finalcollapse of a calamitously mismanaged economy, a phenomenonwe might term "peak mercantilism".

There are alternatives we are not speaking of wind or solar power

here which are mostly hoaxes, subsidized by government whichcould have made this disaster unnecessary. Those in control of theoil corporations are well aware of all of the new informationemerging in their field: the abiotic (non-biological) origin ofpetroleum, the gradual replenishment from below of old"exhausted" oil fields, and the development of oil recovery andregeneration by means of thermal depolymerization.

In an economically healthy regime, unburdened by dinosauroidcorporations, and filled with new, fresh, "free range" enterprises,these facts and perhaps other developments, like catalytic or"cold" fusion could be working for us now, to cure the economicmess we're in and set our feet back on the road to a better, brightertomorrow.

Capitalistic competition is also why 'child labor' has aldisappeared, despite unionist claims to the contrary. Young peoriginally left the farms to work in harsh factory conditions becit was a matter of survival for them and their families. Buworkers became better paid thanks to capital investmentsubsequent productivity improvements more and more pe

could afford to keep their children at home and in school. Unbacked legislation prohibiting child labor came after the declichild labor had already begun. Moreover, child labor laws always been protectionist and aimed at depriving young peopthe opportunity to work. Since child labor sometimes competesunionized labor, unions have long sought to use the power ostate to deprive young people of the right to work. In the TWorld today, the alternative to 'child labor' is all too often begprostitution, crime, or starvation. Unions absurdly proclaim ttaking the moral high road by advocating protectionist policiesinevitably lead to these consequences. Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Capitalism is the only moral social system because it allows man to work for his own profit and because under a capitasystem men only have to work with each other through volunaction for mutual benefit. Capitalism maximizes wealth, prosand happiness. Valara Forsythe

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